Unions do suck, so that shouldn't be too hard of a job.
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Google hired union-busting consultants to convince employees “unions suck”
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#22Seeing comments from previous posts on this forum, I'd say they kind of succeeded.
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#24I keep recalling, Microsoft once seen a unionisation action back in 200X. What has come out of that?
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#25Learn from South Korea: all top tech companies are unionized. #1 search engine (Naver), #1 messenger (Kakao), #1 game company (Nexon), etc.
What do we learn from that?
That unions work in tech companies. Naver/Kakao/Nexon almost simultaneously unionized in 2018, and now some time has passed it is possible to evaluate. It worked great so far.
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#26Unions do suck, so that shouldn't be too hard of a job.
Considering everything they've done (40 hour work week, weekends, safety standards and countless others) I fail to see how
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not if they are unaware of how things might be elsewhere. If they have only ever worked at Google out of college they could have no idea that things suck.
It's hard to believe that people working in one of the most seek-ed/desired jobs in the Valley / tech world, are unaware of how things might be elsewhere.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
If Google does indeed suck, wouldn’t employees leave for a company that doesn’t? I wonder what the attrition looks like
Money. As soon as a lot of people leave a team or location in Google, Google responds by giving everyone bonuses. When a bunch of people started quitting from the Boulder office a few (5?) years back, they offered to send everyone on a trip to Hawaii. Google's Do No Evil has been gone for a long while, but people stick around because they are making so much goddamn money.
That's exactly how it should work...? What's the issue, Google is evil because it increased the incentive for employees to stay?
Re: Google hired union-busting consultants to convince employees “unions suck”
#29Lawyers unionize the moment they reach the required headcount. That tells you all you need to know about this particular facet of the game.
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"Professional employees whose work is merit-based don't need labor unions."
You're living in a dream world, Neo.